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Started this last night. Probably nae the best material to be reading offshore. Especially when I am contracted to the biggest pricks when it comes to safety and covering up sh@t that should be reported as major incidents. Always said this place will be the next Piper Alpha. There have been two major gas leaks in 10 years that eclipse what caused Piper Alpha and more
Definitely similarities between Occidental and this mob
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Thought id lighten the mood after the Piper Alpha book. Put me on a downer
So I started a book on murder, death threats, poverty and mad dictators
Good read. Basically a book on the darker side of the World Cup. Like the Zaire team of 74 and what they went through and what followed the WC. El Salvador v Honduras war match, Andreas Escobar
Get it for pennies these days
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Coincidentally, I read this book around March, possibly with anticipation of the 2018 WC...I think that a reviewer mentioned that the author writes for WSC (When Saturday Comes), which I begun purchasing monthly a couple of years back but I haven't be aware of any of his articles...Originally posted by Pacman1903 View Post
Thought id lighten the mood after the Piper Alpha book. Put me on a downer
So I started a book on murder, death threats, poverty and mad dictators
Good read. Basically a book on the darker side of the World Cup. Like the Zaire team of 74 and what they went through and what followed the WC. El Salvador v Honduras war match, Andreas Escobar
Get it for pennies these days
I liked one of the chapter names, "Tiptoeing through the Tickertape" which provides the perfect mental image of Mario Kempes dancing towards the Dutch goal for his second...even though the tournament was unfairly weighted towards the Argentinians, Rob Rensenbrink came within a bawhair of winning it for the Dutch in the dying seconds of normal time
A good chapter on the El Salvador - Honduras football war too if I remember correctly...I bought a book about it in a Guatemala City second-hand bookshop in the hope that I'd learn to read Spanish, which to date alas, hasn't happened...
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That was my favourite chapter. I'm on the look out for a book on that game and what happened in the aftermath if there is such a thingOriginally posted by BogBrush1903 View Post
A good chapter on the El Salvador - Honduras football war too if I remember correctly..
As for the World Cup in 78. If that wasn't rigged then im a monkeys uncle
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Haven't read the book but I did see the images a few years ago. Very impressive.Originally posted by Mason89 View PostThe Colour of Time. Black & white photos given a dash of colour with the history of the pic to accompany it. Fantastic bog book [ATTACH=CONFIG]10445[/ATTACH]
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I bought a book in NY years ago of crime scene photographs from the early 1900s. Lost it moving house. Brilliant images.
I also lost another great book by a photography student in the 70s that went all over Britain taking pictures of the shop fronts of independent stores and their staff and owners. Then revisiting them modern day to find that only about one shop still exists.
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